Texas state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic Party's new Senate nominee, has a history of making highly controversial statements on matters of religion, race, immigration and beyond.
France expands nuclear arsenal and ends transparency as Europe strengthens defense amid Russia threats. French President Macron declares "to be free, one needs to be feared."
The White House announced an initiative to recruit lawyers to work in the federal government amid an exodus of legal talent since President Trump took office.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pushed back at House Democrats Wednesday after being asked point-blank whether she had engaged in "sexual relations" with Corey Lewandowski -- with her husband seated directly behind her.
Top Senate Democrats urged large businesses Thursday to pass along a portion of forthcoming tariff refunds to consumers who faced higher prices as a trickle-down effect of President Trump's trade agenda.
The federal government has an estimated $50 billion in unsustainable deferred maintenance and repair liabilities at its underused agency buildings, an independent watchdog reported Thursday.
For generations, communities in Southeast Asia have used the leaves of Mitragyna speciosa — kratom — brewed as a drink to relieve pain and steady mood. Its principal alkaloids, mitragynine and the more potent 7-hydroxymitragynine, act on opioid receptors and produce analgesic effects. Kratom has since gained a significant presence in the United States, where consumers […]
The success of Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. air and missile campaign being waged jointly with Israel against Iran, depends on two things: precision weapons and accurate intelligence. Pentagon shortages of cutting-edge ordnance, which is expensive and inherently slower to replace than is commonly understood, are already causing concerns. If this operation continues longer than […]
For six decades, Washington has waged a War on Poverty with ever‑increasing sums of money. According to the House Budget Committee, federal means‑tested welfare spending now exceeds $1 trillion a year, with more than $12 trillion projected over the next decade. When counted as income for recipients, all that spending has reduced poverty, even as […]
It is clear that the Iran-backed Hamas attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, were a blunder of epic proportions for the Islamic regime. Many of history’s great military disasters center on a major tactical error. The Romans at the Battle of Cannae and Napoleon’s invasion of Russia failed spectacularly because leadership underestimated a presumably inferior […]
Over the weekend, joint U.S.-Israeli air and missile strikes began against the Islamic Republic of Iran. These strikes have, thus far, inflicted grave damage, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and many other senior officials. Iran’s fourth-rate navy has been mostly sunk, too. Tehran’s already limited conventional military capacity has also been significantly eroded. However, the […]
Officials in Azerbaijan on Thursday said it would retaliate against Iranian drone strikes on its territory as tensions in the Middle East escalate. Its foreign ministry said Tehran targeted portions of land within the exclave of Nakhchivan, successfully struck the Nakhchivan airport while another drone crashed near a school building in the village of Shekarabad. ...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) appealed to the First Amendment to block the "censure" levied against him by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon agreed, freezing the censure action pending the outcome of an appeal.
